Wednesday, June 22, 2022

The Kardashian Index

 New to me - The Kardahian Index.  From Wikipedia:

The Kardashian Index (K-Index), named after Kim Kardashian, is a satirical measure of the discrepancy between a scientist's social media profile and publication record.  Proposed by Neil Hall in 2014, the measure compares the number of followers a research scientist has on Twitter to the number of citations they have for their peer-reviewed work.

An intriguing notion.  I can see a lot of measurement challenges but it makes intuitive sense.  We can all think of numerous examples of individuals with voluminous social media production and high social media impact but with low empirical or epistemic value.  

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